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Steph

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  1. Cosmic rainbows are good in general.

    So, yeah, figuring big ones are very good.

    For the smaller ones, Cedarman got $4.99 to $12.15  in the recently completed listings.  

    Someone has a blue and yellow 7/8" listed at a BIN of $22.  Might have a small crack in that one -- or that might be a fiber.  

    ... not a lot to go on ... but maybe it helps a little. 

  2. 1 hour ago, Mikie_T said:

    SO.... A Marble King bag with 3 different companies marbles in it?

    No wonder I am having a hard time with who made what......(???)

    Mike

     


    ^_^

    So, the history is that this is an early bag -- presumably after the Marble King company was incorporated in 1949 but before they started making their own marbles (which was sometime around 1955).  So looks like Berry Pink just gathered together some colorful marbles for the ad, without worrying too much about whether he could match them when the orders started coming in.   

    Mr. Pink bought the factory from Mr. Alley ... so that explains the Alleys in the package.  He jobbered marbles for Mr. Peltier ... so that explains the Peltiers in the package. I think I also see some Akros in there ... and the Akro company had gone out of business around that time so there may have been some surplus floating around, but I thought Master got that.  So ?????  (Ric do you see Akros?)

    And what is that marble in the bottom right -- white with orange and yellow stripes?  

  3. 3 hours ago, I'llhavethat1 said:

    So nobody else thinks that looks like a pontil (or cutoff) on William's marble?  Years ago I picked up a white and blue one similar to this (with a busier pattern) and after seeing it inhand figured it was Chinese or Bulgarian.  I'm pretty sure it was handgathered/torchmade of some type.


    The rotation in this view is interesting, but I'm not positing any opinion about how it was made.  This subject is definitely above my pay grade.

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  4. Hoody, do you know Snap, Crackle and Pop ... both an iconic phrase and three iconic cartoon characters associated with Rice Krispies cereal?

     

    I thought of them and what a part they were of my culture growing up ... the kind of thing "everybody know" ...  and I wondered about other countries having that kind of silly stuff becoming household phrases.   So I thought I'd try to ask you about it.

    Even though I haven't quite figured out how to phrase my question ..... 

  5. How are the ribbons arranged?  Could we have a pic in different light, maybe with flash?

     

    What I'm curious about: Are the colors all mixed in together or are the green ribbons distinct from the yellow ... and if they are distinct, do they do the pelt flipflop?

     

     

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